prankish
Example Sentences
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Given its overabundance of empty shock humor, the movie seems afraid to be about much of anything except its toy monkey’s prankish body count.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 21, 2025
Workplaces, theater marquees, pillows, municipal services: everything starts to absorb their prankish tendencies until the ending sequence combines it all into a kind of over-the-top, technicolor uneasiness.
From Salon • Oct. 6, 2023
What the prankish and abundantly coifed 40-year-old Mr. Gaetz, a Florida Republican, plans to do with his new clout is a matter of intense speculation in Washington.
From New York Times • Jan. 29, 2023
Missives like Meredith’s clarify the latent danger in some of the riot’s more prankish elements.
From Slate • Jan. 12, 2021
“Come,” he says, prankish, leading me through the house.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
